Trump, the GOP, and the Pro-Life Movement: George Will

Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist George Will joined Jonathon Van Maren to discuss his opposition to Donald Trump, the state of conservatism, the future of the Republican Party, and the pro-life movement’s gamble on a Trump Administration.

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Pretty disappointing to hear a man like George Will elevate the importance of the ‘aesthetic’ of the Presidency over reshaping the behaviour of the Supreme Court to bring it in line with the constitution. It seems to me that most people are fully aware that the seemliness of the Oval Office has long been a veneer. A veneer which the revelations of the last few decades regarding the Kennedy Presidency, and the real-time revelations of the Clinton Presidency, have shown to be very thin indeed.

Civility and aesthetic are fine when the house isn’t on fire but conservative voters realize that 400,000 abortions and 11 million illegal aliens are a slightly more pressing issue. Not to mention trillion dollar+ deficits and a rampaging administrative state.

Perhaps people like Trump because he’s honest. Not honest in that he always tells the truth – which he clearly doesn’t. But honest in that he doesn’t wear the fake skin of respectability over the body of ruthless ambition as do most other politicians.

Voters are tired of being played by the political class. In November 2016, the political class got played instead.